What you're about to hear, I think, is one of the most surreal clips I've maybe ever heard

when it comes to American politics.

This is a TV interview with a vice president.

And what he's about to allege here is that the president of the United States, who he

served with, was threatening to have him murdered.

This is not an outtake from some overacted political thriller.

This is a real interview that really happened.

And the vice president here, of course, is Spiro Agnew.

Agnew says he left because of a death threat from the White House.

He quotes Nixon chief of staff Alexander Hague urging him to resign with the words

the president has a lot of power.

Don't forget that.

Agnew writes that the remarks had a chill through his body.

He took it as an innuendo that anything could happen.

He might have, in Agnew's words, a convenient accident, an interpretation that even today,

he refuses to disown.

I didn't know what General Hague meant when he said anything may be in the offing.

Things may get nasty and dirty.

There's no doubt in my mind that these things are possible.

I don't say it was a probability, but I do say it was a possibility.

You think that there were men around Richard Nixon, either in the White House staff or in

the official mechanism of the CIA, who were capable of killing a vice president of the

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